A lot of interesting ideas coming up here. I lke keeping my Mopar cars Mopar powered. My thoughts on the Dakota 4 cyl were mostly just to be different, and since the FWD cars had turbos it would be fairly easy to add the turbo to one.
92-96 Dakotas also have a nice basic wire harness and guage cluster that would swap into an A body dash easily making the wiring a snap.
If I had a 93 ish 4 cyl Dakota, I could gut the truck and swap almost everything into a Dart or other A body.
Any other ideas?